To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here In his book Messy Spirituality, author and pastor Mike Yaconelli recounts the story of a home remodeling project. He and his wife decided to redo the tile in their kitchen. Their house, which was situated in a rugged part of California’s Sierra Nevada Mountains, was more than 60 miles from the… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Ludwig van Beethoven is back in the news – an impressive feat, given the fact that he died almost 200 years ago. Historians have long wondered why the composer was afflicted by so many chronic illnesses. During the last half of his life he suffered the gradual loss of his hearing… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here It’s easy to argue that there has never been a better time to be old. Senior adults, in general, are the beneficiaries of more opportunities, better healthcare, greater disposable income, and longer life than any generation in history. During the heyday of the Roman Empire, average life expectancy was 28. Today,… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Last May, Josef Newgarden won his first Indianapolis “500” – arguably the highest achievement in motorsports. Defending champs generally return to Indy 12 months later and savor a month of public adulation. Not this year. Newgarden recently admitted that he cheated earlier this spring during Indycar’s first race of the season… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Nuclear weapons, ominously, have found their way into both entertainment and the evening news in recent months. Oppenheimer, the story of America’s development of nuclear technology in World War II, recently took home seven Oscars, including Best Picture. Fallout, a post-apocalyptic TV series set in bombed-out Los Angeles, is a hit on… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Sooner or later, every mother has to face what Moses’ mother faced. She had to let her child go. The story of Moses’ birth is told in one of the Bible’s most dramatic texts – the opening 32 verses of the Old Testament book of Exodus. More than a thousand years… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Every spring the month of May brings us not only the Greatest Spectacle in Racing – the Indianapolis “500” – but the Greatest Spectacle in Spelling, also known as the Scripps National Spelling Bee. This year 245 contestants will gather in Maryland on May 28-30 to write another chapter in what… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here Does the picture above look like the image of a cold-blooded killer? A number of South Koreans have their suspicions. “Fan death” – the widely-held misconception that running an electric fan in a closed environment can harm or even asphyxiate human beings who are sleeping there – is a fascinating urban… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here American playwright Thornton Wilder wrote a one-act play about a miracle that doesn’t take place. The Angel That Troubled the Waters debuted in 1928. It’s based on John chapter five, where the Gospel describes Jesus’ visit to the pool of Bethesda in Jerusalem. A host of sick people have gathered in… Read more »
To listen to today’s reflection as a podcast, click here It was the first truly nationwide media event. Americans waited breathlessly on May 10, 1869, to receive word by telegraph that the final spike had been driven into the transcontinental railroad, officially linking the westward tracks of the Union Pacific Railroad with the east-directed tracks of the Central Pacific Railroad at… Read more »
